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I see the MoD have decided to play down the Frigate incident.

I see the MoD have decided to play down the Frigate incident.

Reading the account of the pair in the Yacht I suspect it was all a bit overblown.

They dont deny that the Russian Ship followed Global procedures with Horn signals, repeated them twice and tried to contact them on radio, when that failed they fired shots IN TO THE AIR to warn them!

Had they been smashed in to by the Russian ship, even if their fault can you imagine the outcry!

That's not what they say.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/16/russian-frigate-fires-warning-shots-at-british-yacht-in-channel-reports
..She also told BBC Newsnight: “They gave out five blasts on their horn, which means ‘have you seen us?’

“We immediately turned two degrees to port so they could see we made a deliberate change of course, which meant we had seen them.

“A minute or so later, they gave another five blasts on their horn followed by four to five small arms fire, which wasn’t aimed at us, it was warning fire which went up in the air.”

The couple took issue with the Russian version of events.

Jane added: “They didn’t send up any flares, they didn’t try to radio us, they didn’t look to us like they were adrift, we were definitely not on a collision course. We were going to miss them. It just wasn’t an incident until the gunfire started.”..

They also say they were no closer than 450m, and that the Russian ship had AIS turned off.

It's really hard to play "You Are the Ref" without knowing the relative position of both vessels but I don't believe their no VHF hail story for one second. On the whole, I'd trust the seamanship of a Krivak's crew (or any Navy) over Sid and Doris Bonkers. If the Russians really had wanted to shit them up, they'd have just let the collision happen. I also think the Krivak's commander was a bit windy about getting USS Coled.

INFLATION STEADY at 2.8%

Second month it has defied the gloom and doom merchants despite massive Global headwinds.

For the second successive month dimwit MEL loses his stride and reads the wrong script on early morning Media.

For god sake put him and the Leader out of their abject misery!

With Brent Oil back down at $78, it does seem the fears of a widespread inflation shock akin to 2022 were wide of the mark.

We havent had the impact of the spike in fertiliser pricing on food come through yet. For one.

We dont yet have peace or supply resumed. Just an agreement to talk and we have Israel actively trying to scupper it.

Today’s news is good and welcome but it’s not over yet.

I see the MoD have decided to play down the Frigate incident.

Is it any wonder, all the morons clutching their pearls at fact that a Russian frigate fired a few blanks to save a pair of doddery English retirees, who had ignored all signals up to then, from getting run over.

"Steam gives way to sail". Have the Russians not read their old friend Arthur Ransome?

The yacht was under power and the Krivak wasn't apparently. If that were true then Sid and Doris Bonkers would be the "give way" vessel and the Russians would have been "stand on". It's the responsibility of both parties to avoid a collision which they did so the small arms fire worked.